Variety's music writers pick 2025's best songs, from Lily Allen, Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Dean, Dijon, Hayley Williams, Taylor Swift and more.

From Clipse to Metro Boomin and Cardi B, the year was full of memorable rap songs that expanded and experimented with the ...

After a few years away, Justin Bieber made a strong return in 2025 with “Daisies,” a breezy, guitar-leaning single from his ...

Rolling Stone ranks the best Afropop songs of the year featuring Adekunle Gold, Rema, Moily, Theodora, Tyla, Davido, Bien, ...

As featured in ELLE’s best songs of April 2025: “Moody and bass-y, the verses of The Marías’ latest single creep in with lead ...

The longest Amplifier playlist of the year is finally here: five hours, 90 tracks, each of which was chosen as a 2025 ...

Which Tiny Desk made an audio engineer question everything? Which one made a producer want to cry? Touch grass? Look back on ...

A moving collection of vocal works, including world premiere recordings of music by the eminent Hungarian composer Gyorgy ...

With 2025 coming to a close, that means we've reached the halfway point for this decade. Difficult as that may be to believe, ...

Title by or about Paul McCartney, Cameron Crowe, Ozzy Osbourne, Yoko Ono, the Cars, Mark Ronson and more are among the year's ...

On Wednesday, one of the all-time greatest and most entertaining music documentaries will be made available in remastered and expanded form on Disney Plus. The Beatles Anthology originally aired on ...